Marijuana Culture

Kansas City, Missouri voted on Thursday to end pre-employment cannabis drug screenings at most city jobs.

President Biden received a letter this week signed by more than 150 celebrity entertainers, politicians, law enforcement officials, and advocates requesting clemency for federal cannabis offenders.

The New York State Fair is reconsidering its open cannabis policy following some complaints from this year’s event.

Seth Rogen gave Conan O’Brien a joint during an interview Tuesday night and the comedians surprised their audience when they actually lit and smoked it.

A recent survey found that most people who identify as religious in the U.S. also support the broad legalization of cannabis. Support for cannabis reforms is much stronger, though, among non-religious people.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has pardoned Dr. Paul Ezell, an ophthalmologist who in 2014 lost his career and was jailed for six months for growing cannabis as medicine for his sick wife.

The FDA has announced plans to ban flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.

The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission will stop testing drivers for cannabis after New York legalized cannabis for adult use in March.

Three members of Congress — Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Barbara Lee, and Earl Blumenauer — sent a letter to the executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden requesting them to display hemp plants.

A federal U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the firing of a Chicago-based former Postal Service employee after they appeared to make an illegal cannabis purchase in 2017.

Colorado is holding auctions for several cannabis-themed license plates as a fundraiser to benefit the Colorado Disability Funding Committee; auctioned plates include SATIVA, GANJA, ISIT420, TEGRIDY, and more.

Steve Fox, the lead drafter of Colorado’s historic legalization initiative approved by voters in 2012, has died at age 53.

The upcoming cannabis-themed streaming channel Cannected is set for an April 20 soft launch through a range of streaming services including Apple TV and Roku.

Steadfast Labs in Hazel Park, Michigan is offering an annual $1,200 scholarship for students studying cannabis chemistry at Lake Superior University.

Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey is launching a Cannabis & Hemp Research Institute to expand its cannabis academic studies.

The Human Toll is a new docuseries that explores how cannabis prohibition — and the drug war, in general — was racially motivated and continues to unfairly target Black and Brown communities for enforcement.

A recent survey of potential American home buyers found that just 46 percent of respondents would be willing to buy a house within one mile of a cannabis dispensary.

Washington state law enforcement agencies are releasing responses including guidance and pushback to the state’s Supreme Court ruling last week that effectively decriminalized all drug possession.

Public schools in Peoria County, Illinois are getting just over $858,000 in cannabis-derived tax revenue from the state.

The Budz Lounge in Wagoner, Oklahoma opened its doors as a warming station and shelter for the town’s homeless population, who had nowhere else to turn amid a dangerous winter storm.

Calvin Johnson, a former NFL star wide receiver and founder of Primitiv, a Michigan-based cannabis company, was just elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Q13 Fox Seattle, a Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate, botched its coverage of former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch’s new Dodi Blunts product line, mistakenly reporting that the blunts were infused with actual 24-carat diamonds.

A man who filmed himself smoking a joint during the infamous US Capitol siege on January 6 has been arrested by the FBI.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has removed THC from its list of banned substances, except in cases where an athlete uses it “intentionally for performance-enhancing purposes.”